Turning toward home

Today is Monday, and my thoughts are starting to turn towards our journey home. We fly to Honolulu, then Seattle on Saturday. Sunday will bring us home. We arrive in Calgary in the early evening, but will be facing a 4 hr time adjustment with the kids. It would be easy to try and jump right back into the busyness of our day to day routine at home, but this post ( http://simplemom.net/post-vacation-peace-for-kids/) on simple mom caught my attention yesterday. I'm starting to think about what is ahead the week we come home, what is important, what isn't, and how we can let these laid back days of ours linger for a little while longer.

Here's what I've learned on this trip:

You can get by with a lot less. Less clothes, shoes, toys, STUFF. I'm thinking of how to clean out a bit when we get home. Make everything a bit simpler. I've found simpler to be less stress, and much easier to maintain.

Coming down the pipe:

Three days a week of preschool, the start of me teaching some knitting classes (yes!), Halloween, pumpkin parties, inlaws visiting, and graces surgery. Phew! Even typing that out makes me spin a bit.

Going to take some tips from the article and figure out on a day to day basis what will keep me calm, so I can ease the transition back for the kids too.

Today:

Thinking of all those celebrating thanksgiving today. Knitting on graces blanket. Possibly headed to the beach. Life is good.